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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |  Growth A/B Testing |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 2-4 h | 1-4 Wochen | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 2-8 | 1-6 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |